Prince William has shared an emotional update on his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales, who is out of the public eye while she battles cancer.
Speaking with a war veteran at an event honouring the 80th anniversary of D-Day, William, along with King Charles and Queen Camilla, was seen in conversation with veterans who recalled the day.
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One conversation, filmed by a bystander and posted to X, shows William speaking with World War II veteran Geoffrey Weaving, 100, who asked the prince about his wife’s recovery.
Kate is undergoing preventative chemotherapy after confirming in March she was diagnosed with a form of cancer.
“I was going to ask you if your wife was getting any better?” asked Weaving, who was in a wheelchair.
Bending down to be at his eye level, William remarked: “Yes… she would have loved to have been here today.”
“I was reminding everybody, her grandmother served at Bletchley so she would have had quite a bit in common with a few of the other ladies here who served at Bletchley but never spoke about it until the very end,” he added.
Kate’s grandmother Valerie Glassborow worked during WWII in the codebreaking centre, which Kate visited in 2014.
Sharing this in 2016, Kate said for a special puzzle book for the UK’s Signals Intelligence and Cyber Security agency: “I have always been immensely proud of my grandmother, Valerie Glassborow, who worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
“She and her twin sister, Mary, served with thousands of other young women as part of the great Allied effort to break enemy codes.
“They hardly ever talked about their wartime service, but we now know just how important the men and women of Bletchley Park were, as they tackled some of the hardest problems facing the country.”
Questions still surround the timing of Kate’s return to the public eye after official confirmation that she will miss an important military ceremony this month.
Bearing the honorary rank of Colonel in Chief of the Irish Guards, Kate would normally take part in the Colonel’s Review, a ceremonial military event that takes place in London on June 8.
The Review is the traditional rehearsal for June 15’s world-famous Trooping the Colour.
Lieutenant General James Bucknall, KCB, CBE, will carry out the role of Inspecting Officer on behalf of the princess as she continues her recovery.
It has been reported that the Princess of Wales “may never come back in the role that people saw her in before”, according to a source who spoke with Us Weekly.
Kate is reportedly “re-evaluating what she’s going to be able to take on when she comes back”.
Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams added that Kate’s return would be based on “medical advice, and it will be very carefully balanced”.
The princess has not been seen in public since she revealed she had cancer, in a video in March this year.
The video was released after months of fervent speculation about her whereabouts after Kensington Palace said she would be taking a step back from public duties as she recovered from a planned abdominal surgery.
Kate’s children, George, 10, Charlotte, 8, and Louis, 5, have also largely been out of the public eye since her surgery.
King Charles III was himself diagnosed with cancer in February and has been undergoing treatment.
Doctors discovered the disease after he was hospitalised with an enlarged prostate, although the palace has said he does not have prostate cancer.